Dahlia Sokolov

Dahlia Sokolov is the Democratic Policy Director of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

For a decade prior to that, she served as Staff Director for the Research & Technology Subcommittee, where she played a key role in developing and shepherding through the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act, the Quantum Initiative Act, and many other notable science and technology policy laws.

Dahlia has deep expertise on Federal science, technology, and innovation policy matters, especially as they pertain to the National Science Foundation; the Department of Commerce; emerging technologies; research security; STEM education; and academic research. During her first two years with the Committee, Dahlia worked on energy issues, including nuclear energy R&D.

Dahlia joined the committee staff as an American Institute of Physics Congressional fellow in 2004 and joined the professional staff in 2005. Dahlia is serving under the leadership of Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), and previously served under the leadership of former Chairs Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX), Bart Gordon (D-TN), and Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY).

Before coming to Congress, Dahlia completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the National Cancer Institute. Dahlia is an honorary fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science. She has a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of California at Berkeley.